Jane Ridley Quotes

In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.

I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

Your traditions change from when you a child to when you become an adult.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s.

I always think that period between the ages of 18 and 24 is such a bizarre stage, and the two people at either end are always very different.

When you're in your twenties, your brain hasn't even finished baking, and your hormones are giving you all kinds of direction of which ways to go.

I think when you're in your 20s, going from adolescence to about 24, I think your life is a series of emotional storms that you have to weather. Life is more emotional at that time, and you're less equipped to deal with what life throws at you. I always think that if you can get past 24, than life really starts at that point.

You go through so many changes, especially in your twenties.

I am much more settled in who I am. I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own, you've got you first job, you've got your first apartment, you're living away from your parents, you're just discovering who you are. I have deep, long friendships now and real relationships and I am so excited about the rest of my 40s.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

I think that everybody kind of changes a lot between the time they're seventeen and when they're twenty-one or twenty-two.

I know it's hard to believe that I'm no longer the young 'Zuri' everyone has grown to love, which I truly appreciate, but like every young lady, I'm growing, I'm maturing and finding myself at 16 years old discovering the joys and pains of the world we live in.

Childhood and adolescence are nothing but milestones: You grow taller, advance to new grades, and get your period, your driver's license, and your diploma. Then, in your 20s and 30s, you romance potential partners, find jobs, and learn to support yourself.

I think that from 15 to, like, 18, I went through a very rough time. Something basically everyone goes through in those years - not knowing what you're going to do.

When you're 17 and 18 is when you get really good, and in college, you have to put the chess aside.

What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the time you're 25.

When I was between 18 and 25 it was like I had problem finding the middle of my personality.

Adolescence is a time of active deconstruction, construction, reconstruction--a period in which past, present, and future are rewoven and strung together on the threads of fantasies and wishes that do not necessarily follow the laws of linear chronology.

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.